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They are among the most foreshortened landscapes ever painted, and they have a weird if harmless sense of danger to them, as though all those ticky-tack houses and stern, vertical condos and loops of thruway were about to slide down the canvas and rumple up in heaps at the bottom--fulfilling, in miniature, the prophecy that has always been made for the quake zone. But this prospect feels remote. Thiebaud has never tried to read a sense of Expressionist angst into the California coast...
...some. The critical question is whether the economy can turn itself around by June of next year, when voters start turning their attention to House and Senate races. If the economy perks up, the Democrats' I-told-you-so song will sound like whining. If the economy continues to slide, Republicans will likely pay for that music at the polls...
...down bombs and shells on villages occupied by the guerrillas will drive many Macedonian Albanians into the arms of the rebels. Yet the absence of any strong disincentive for the guerrillas to continue fighting may be the fatal flaw of NATO's strategy, which appears to be accelerating the slide to civil war, an outcome the alliance had desperately hoped to avoid - and which would inevitably drag NATO in to clean up the mess, but only after yet another embarrassing conflagration has exploded right under the noses of the U.S. and European troops sent to the Balkans to keep...
...Apparently there had been a large rubber ball at the top of the rubber slide, and Caroline had noticed it as Mommy had reached for the tickets and as the foul ball was descending toward...
...President Bush also expressed concern. His own antitrust regulators at the Justice Department let the G.E.-Honeywell marriage - a very neatly matched one-stop-shopping combination of jetliner engines and jetliner avionics that scared G.E.'s European competitors - slide through with only minor alterations. Then head euro-trustbuster Mario Monti and his commission had to go and mess it all up for reasons that struck American backers of American business interests (like Rockefeller and Bush) as a little too, well, nationalistic...